installing parallels tools in a live-build (running kernel isn't the installed kernel)

Is it possible to install the parallels tools when the running kernel isn't installed in the current system? This is the case when building live boot images - the live OS image being built probably doesn't have the same kernel as the build system, and may not even have access to that kernel (eg: building a Kali live image on a Debian host).

install-cli.sh and pm.sh can't handle this case as they have calls to uname -r all over the place and expect to be able to find kernel headers for the running kernel even though this isn't actually necessary. I'd rather not have to carry a huge patchset against the parallels tools installer in order to be able to spin live images that actually have guest OS integration.

 

fwiw, tried kver="$(ls -1 /lib/modules)" perl -i -pe 's/uname -r/echo $ENV{kver}/g' "$installer_path"/installer/*.sh over the installer scripts and still no go... the installer tries to modprobe its modules (to see if they're built?) which of course fails...